Exam question 1 · The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the…

Identify the offence which, in the Clerk's estimation, merited the severest penalty.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Clerk · What happens: identify, merit, estimate · To what, where: offence, estimation, severest penalty

This is exam question 1 of lesson 48 «The Wind in the Willows, chapter VI, part 4: Mr. Toad (the car in the inn-yard, twenty years, and the deepest dungeon)» of the books course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Identify	identify	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 offence	det
3	offence	offence	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obj
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	3 offence	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 estimation	punct
6	in	in	ADP	_	10 estimation	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Clerk	det
8	Clerk	Clerk	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 estimation	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 Clerk	case
10	estimation	estimation	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Identify	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 merited	punct
12	merited	merit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Identify	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 penalty	det
14	severest	severe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 penalty	amod
15	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 merited	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Identify	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	identify	imperative	you not said here	the offence	the Clerk's estimation	vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent offence=Theme
2	merit	past		the severest penalty		tree rules
3	estimate		the Clerk			nom estimation «communication transitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Impertinence to the rural police, which he thought deserved the severest penalty of all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Impertinence	impertinence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 police	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 police	det
4	rural	rural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 police	amod
5	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Impertinence	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 deserved	punct
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 deserved	nsubj:pass
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 deserved	nsubj
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 deserved	aux:pass
10	deserved	deserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Impertinence	acl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 penalty	det
12	severest	severe	ADJ	Degree=Sup	13 penalty	amod
13	penalty	penalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 deserved	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 penalty	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	deserve	past · passive		Impertinence to the rural police					tree rules

Option 2

The theft of a motor-car from an inn-yard by a respectable gentleman

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 theft	det
2	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 car	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 car	det
5	motor	motor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 car	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 motor	punct
7	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 theft	nmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	12 yard	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 yard	det
10	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 yard	compound
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 inn	punct
12	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 car	nmod
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 gentleman	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 gentleman	det
15	respectable	respectable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 gentleman	amod
16	gentleman	gentleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 theft	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Cheeking the village constables

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cheeking	cheek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 constables	det
3	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 constables	compound
4	constables	constable	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Cheeking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheek	gerund		the village constables					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Impertinence to the rural police

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Impertinence	impertinence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 police	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 police	det
4	rural	rural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 police	amod
5	police	police	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Impertinence	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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